CBN Governor Emefiele Finally Honours House of Reps Invitation




By Our Reporter 

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele has appeared before the ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives, investigating the scarcity of the new naira notes.

Emefiele while addressing the committee explained that he had been out of the country, hence his failure to honour previous invitations.

Speaking about the redesign of the naira, he said the CBN’s actions were in line with international best practices and the apex bank has to be in control of the currency in circulation.

Briefing them further, Emefiele said in 2015 1.4 trillion naira was in circulation, and by last year it had risen to 3.33 trillion naira.

He explained that the reason for directing banks to ensure only ATM withdrawals was to limit the daily withdrawal of individuals.

He decried the trend of the new notes being sighted at parties and stated he was in meetings with commercial banks to mitigate these.

He agreed that the policies would hurt some persons but claimed it was in the interest of the country especially in combating insecurity.

Emefiele had failed to appear before the lawmakers despite initial requests detailing in a series of letters that he was in the United States on an important assignment, and was still outside the country respectively.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, would go on to state that he would not hesitate to ask the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to issue an arrest warrant on  Emiefele to compel him to appear before the House.

Recall that in  November, the apex bank fixed 31 January 2023 deadline for the usage of the old notes.

However, the scarcity of the new notes forced the hands of the House to set up an ad hoc committee to resolve the difficulties between the CBN and commercial banks, despite the insistence of Emefiele that many of the banks were hoarding the notes.

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